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Coupon Winners!

Posted in Children, Education, volunteering, tagged , on April 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »

While we weren’t exactly bowled over by the number of entries to our Donors Choose coupon contest last week, we were gobsmacked by the words that came in. To say we were moved is an understatement. Our thanks to everyone who participated by responding to: Name one (or more) things that 52 Weeks of Impact has [...]

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Win a FREE Coupon to Support Kids

Posted in Children, Education, Literacy, volunteering, tagged , , , on March 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Last year, during Week 17 Impact Kids, through Donors Choose, we donated toward the purchase of books for a school in South Carolina. Recently, as a follow up to our support, we were asked to participate in a brief survey. In return, we received five free! $25 coupons to be used toward any project on [...]

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Celebrate Reading

Posted in Children, Education, Literacy, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »

ADDED Feb 23, 2011: 3-2-1 … It’s begun! Go to our Facebook page, LIKE us so you can join the conversation, and tell us your top children’s books! You’ll automatically be entered to win a $20 U.S. Amazon Gift Card. It was during early childhood when I first learned the merits of sneakiness (which manifested [...]

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Week 47: Traveling Impact, follow-up

Posted in Children, Education, Sustainable Tourism, Travel, tagged , , on December 29, 2010 | Comments Off

We’ve found Lisa’s way of Traveling (with) Impact so inspiring that when we travel to developing countries or to areas where there might be specific needs, we, too, do what we can to benefit the local community. Prior to our most recent trip, Nils and I put out a call to colleagues and friends for [...]

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Week 48: Really Cool Holiday Stuff

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, Arts and Culture, carbon footprint, Children, Eco-Friendly, Education, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Friends, Gender Equality, Gift Giving, Homeless, Hunger, Micro-financing, Plastic, Shopping, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 30, 2010 | Comments Off

Not long ago, the mere mention of socially-conscious gifts or green giving would likely provoke offers of “let’s not exchange gifts this year” by adults, tantrums by children. At best, it meant a packet of cards with flowers pressed in waxed paper, or a lamp made from popsicle sticks (no offense to either). But now, [...]

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Week 41: Helping writers get their groove back

Posted in Arts and Culture, Education, Personal Development, tagged , , , , , on October 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Finally, caught up. Here’s the overdue posting on Week 41. Another Impact week worth remembering. Despite the flu and an average of 14-hour days at the computer, Week 41 ranks with some of my most personally fulfilling of the year — though I suppose there have been many. My Impact Effort was to lead a five-day writers’ [...]

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Lovin’ Slacktivism, Slacktivists and Slacktivity

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, carbon footprint, Children, Eco-Friendly, Education, Environment, Product Safety, volunteering, women's rights, tagged , , , , , , , on September 22, 2010 | Comments Off

This is turning out to be such a fun week. I’m lovin’ being a Slacktivist and thanks to a friend, I now have a new word to add to my vocabulary: Slacktivity! (Thanks, Joe. I think I’ll submit it to Merriam-Webster). This trying really hard to do as little as possible and have an Impact [...]

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What d’ya mean, it’s not all about ME?

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, Blood Donation, Children, Disaster Relief, Education, volunteering, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »

After several glorious vacation weeks back in the States, having lots of fun with family and friends, I’ve been feeling … well … weird. I’ve chalked up my lack of motivation and moodiness (Nils will attest to the latter) in part to jet-lag, in part to the usual dolefulness that follows a great holiday. I’ve [...]

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Week 20: Retrospective

Posted in Children - Chronically Ill, click-to-donate, Eco-Friendly, Education, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Homeless, Micro-financing, Random Acts of Kindness, Search-to-donate, Water conservation on May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I admit it. There have been times when we’ve said, “what have we gotten ourselves into?!!” “Life Happens,” and not always at moments when it’s convenient. Twice during the first 20 weeks we’ve had to scale back our expectations due to illness, household “disaster” or just plain fatigue. But, we’re proud to say that we [...]

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Week 17: Impacting Kids, Follow-up

Posted in Children, Education, tagged , , , on May 3, 2010 | Comments Off

Choosing DonorsChoose.org last week as our avenue for Impact made for another “can’t beat” kind of Impact Effort. Much like in Week 8: Brighten a Child’s Day when we sent cards to ill or hospitalized children, choosing children to give to was no simple task. Though a few of the projects we found on the [...]

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